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More E-Voting Software Leaks Surface
Christopher Soghoian writes "Sound like something you've seen before? Wired News reports that the software which runs Sequoia's AVC Edge voting machines has been accidentally placed on another company's publicly available FTP server, although this time it's the binary, rather than the source that's been leaked. Machines running this software were used in California's Riverside County for the 2000 presidential election and for last month's California gubernatorial recall election. The system also has been used in counties in Florida and Washington state."
They seem to have added a hasty requirement for a password (and its been configured! admin/admin isnt getting in). Anyone cracked an account or have a mirror of the binary?
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I was reading the headline and I thought I read it as "ubernatorial election", made me ponder for a moment.
Yeah, because if the federal government does it, it is efficient, reliable, and effective.
...but I lack the prehensile tail.
(sigh)
from the article
Neumann, the security expert, said, "This means that anyone could install a Trojan horse in the MDAC that won't show up in the source code." Jaguar employees, Sequoia employees or state election officials could insert code that wouldn't be detectable in a certification review of the code or in security testing of the system, he said.
Now all we need to do is write a trojan to get Tux elected president!!
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and for last month's California gubernatorial recall election
more like 'Rise of the eVoting Machines'.
> Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting? ... get the DOD on it.
Yeah, have the military run the elections. Great idea...NOT.
I asked him: "Since you make money on your hardware what's the problem with open sourcing your software?" He hemed and hawed but then said: "Our programmers are not good enough that we want to let the world see our code!"
I got a little irate and said: "Well its our votes getting counted." He then said: "Well there is something else. Its running on Win98 and we can't fix those security holes!"
At that point I told him: "I think I prefer hanging chad."
2)Clay tablets take too long to dry. Votes could be changed in the meantime. Pen and paper is better.
3)Pen and paper is too slow to tabulate. We're switching to these cool punch cards.
4)People are apparently too stupid to use punch cards. Long live the touch screen system!
5)These electronic voting boxes can apparently be h4x0r3d by any halfway intelligent three-year-old with a spoon and an old emery board. This system, however, is foolproof...
*pulls out basket full of rocks painted black or white*
Doing my level best to piss off the religious right wing...
Here's the most recent This Modern World comic by Tom Tomorrow for those of you who are into biting political humor....
-- thinkyhead software and media
SkyNet put it there!
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
What's your address? We are pitching in together for Christmas to get you a screen larger then 640x480.
So, he quit his mail route?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
If it weren't for Americans you wouldn't even have an Internet to leak stuff. Just ask Al Gore. He created it.
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... but I get a little nervous when I look at a brochure for voting booths with product lines named "Edge" and "Advantage."
What's next? The "Backdoor" line?